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Oyais Ahmad Chat1, Muzaffar Hussain Najar, Mohammad Amin Mir
1Department of Chemistry, University of Kashmir, Srinagar-190006, J&K, India.
Abstract:
The interaction of the antioxidant Rutin with the radical DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) in presence of cationic (CTAB, TTAB, DTAB), non-ionic (Brij78, Brij58, Brij35), anionic (SDS) and mixed surfactant systems (CTAB-Brij58, DTAB-Brij35, SDS-Brij35) has been followed by spectrophotometric and tensiometric methods to evaluate the DPPH radical scavenging activity (RSA) of Rutin in these model self-assembled structures. The results show that the solubilization capacity of various single surfactant systems for both DPPH as well as Rutin followed the order cationics > non-ionics > anionic. The radical scavenging activity of Rutin in the solubilized form was higher within ionic micelles than in non-ionic micelles. However, the antioxidant exhibited enhanced activity for the radical in mixed cationic-non-ionic micelles compared with any of the single component micelles. In contrast, anionic-non-ionic mixed micelles modulated the activity of Rutin in-between that seen for pure anionic and non-ionic micelles only.
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